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  • - Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK
    av Austin Long
    398 - 1 706,-

    In The Soul of Armies Austin Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgency operations during the Cold War and in recent years by three organizations: the US Army, the US Marine Corps, and the British Army.

  • - Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation
    av Lynn Eden
    323 - 1 004,-

    Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war? U.S...

  • - Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
    av Jeffrey W. Legro
    497,-

    Legro offers a new understanding of the dynamics of World War II and the sources of international cooperation.

  • - The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation
    av Alexander Lanoszka
    623,-

    Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of...

  • - Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
    av Richard J. Samuels
    386 - 789,-

    The definitive assessment of Japanese security policy and its implications for the future of East Asia.

  • - Power and the Roots of Conflict
    av Stephen Van Evera
    398 - 743,-

    What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of interstate war.

  • - Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
    av Kelly M. Greenhill
    430 - 695,-

    Greenhill offers the first systematic examination of forced migration as an important but largely unrecognized instrument of state influence. She shows both how often this unorthodox brand of coercion has been attempted and how successful it has been.

  • - Great Power Intervention in the Periphery
    av Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
    729,-

    Great powers often initiate risky military and diplomatic inventions in far-off, peripheral regions that pose no direct threat to them, risking direct confrontation with rivals in strategically inconsequential places. Why do powerful countries behave...

  • - The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939
    av Mary R. Habeck
    420,-

    In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed in Germany and the Soviet Union between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle.

  • av Benjamin S. Lambeth
    492,-

    Since the unprecedentedly effective performance of the allied air campaign against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, the role of American air power in future wars has become a topic of often heated public debate. In this balanced appraisal of air...

  • - History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age
    av Francis J. Gavin
    290 - 528,-

    Gavin challenges key elements of the widely accepted narrative about the history of the atomic age and the consequences of the nuclear revolution.

  • - Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes
    av Caitlin Talmadge
    406,-

    A compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well-and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's framework for understanding battlefield effectiveness focuses on four key sets of military organizational practices.

  • - Innovation and the Modern Military
    av Stephen Peter Rosen
    386 - 782,-

    Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the international strategic situation.

  • - The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War
    av Stuart J. Kaufman
    406,-

    What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors? Stuart Kaufman finds the roots of ethnic violence in myths and symbols, the stories ethnic groups tell about who they are.

  • av Robert J. Art
    277,99 - 769,-

    What strategic behavior is appropriate for a state as powerful as the U.S.? To answer this question, Robert J. Art concentrates on "grand strategy"-the deployment of military power in both peace and war to support foreign policy goals.

  • - Power Politics and the Making of the European Community
    av Sebastian Rosato
    379 - 675,-

    A balance-of-power perspective on the formation, development, and future of the EC/EU.

  • - U.S. Noncombat Operations and Major Wars
    av Aaron Rapport
    443,-

    In Waging War, Planning Peace, Aaron Rapport investigates how U.S. presidents and their senior advisers have managed vital noncombat activities while the nation is in the midst of fighting or preparing to fight major wars.

  • - British Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1933-1939
    av Wesley K. Wark
    406 - 743,-

    Wark shows that faulty intelligence assessments were crucial in shaping the British policy of appeasement up to the outbreak of World War II. His book offers a new perspective on British policy and intelligence in the interwar period.

  • - Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower
    av Michael Beckley
    364,-

    The United States has been the world's dominant power for more than a century. Now many analysts believe that other countries are rising and the United States is in decline. Is the unipolar moment over? Is America finished as a superpower?In this book, Michael Beckley argues that the United States has unique advantages over other nations that...

  • - Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
    av Matthew Kroenig
    451 - 1 692,-

  • - How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons
     
    443,-

    The proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is now the single most serious security concern for governments around the world. Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, and James J. Wirtz compare how military threats, strategic cultures, and...

  • - The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
    av P. W. Singer
    258 - 602,-

    Some have claimed that'War is too important to be left to the generals,'but P. W. Singer asks'What about the business executives?'Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to...

  • - Norms and Force in International Relations
    av Ward Thomas
    451 - 1 706,-

    Many assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Civil War general William Sherman said war "is all hell." The implication behind the maxim is that in war, as in hell, there is no order, only chaos; no mercy, only...

  • - Apologies in International Politics
    av Jennifer M. Lind
    273 - 859,-

    Looking at Japan and Germany Lind demonstrates that denials of past atrocities fuel distrust and limit international reconciliation and argues that a country's acknowledgment of past misdeeds is essential for promoting trust and reconciliation after war.

  • - Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers
    av C. William Walldorf
    712,-

    Walldorf argues that Western governments can and must integrate human rights into their foreign policies. Failure to take humanitarian concerns into account, he contends, will only damage their long-term strategic objectives.

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    1 434,-

    High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders-trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan outline cognitive and organizational biases that lead organizations to downplay the insider...

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    333,-

    High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders-trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan outline cognitive and organizational biases that lead organizations to downplay the insider...

  • - How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons
     
    1 706,-

    The proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is now the single most serious security concern for governments around the world. Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, and James J. Wirtz compare how military threats, strategic cultures, and...

  • - Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace
    av Timothy W. Crawford
    972,-

    As the preponderant world power, the United States is a potential arbiter of war and peace between such feuding rivals as India and Pakistan, Turkey and Greece, China and Taiwan. How can it deter them from going to war and impel them to accept...

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